Investigation of Structural and Modal Analysis of a Wind Turbine Planetary Gear using Finite Element Method

Abdellah Mohsine

Abstract


Damages in gears may result from excessive operating load (overload), inadequate operating conditions, operation near the resonant frequency of a gear structure, or simple fatigue during power transmission. In mechanical design, the engineers must always ensure that the mechanical resonance frequencies of the components are not allowed to match the drive oscillation frequencies of oscillating parts. Various experimental and theoretical techniques have been developed to analyze such vibrational problems. In this paper, the planetary gear was modeled in Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire 4.0 while the Mesh and the structural, modal and response harmonic analysis for different boundary conditions were performed in ANSYS Workbench 15.0. A modal analysis was then performed for these different cases to calculate a few initial natural frequencies and to analyze its movements using the harmonic response. Furthermore, it is observed that the value of the maximum occurred stress obtained by the harmonic response analysis for the three different cases is less than the maximum materials stress.


Keywords


planetary gear; structural analysis; frequency; modal; harmonic.

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